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Ministerial Working Group on Promoting Employment Please note: The content of this page will no longer be updated. The Ministerial Working Group on Promoting Employment guided and directed the implementation of Prime Minister Sanna Marin's Governm...https://tem.fi/en/ministerial-working-group-on-promoting-employment
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EU AI Board and its sub-groups The European Artificial Intelligence Board has approved a list of sub-groups that the AI Board is empowered to set up and that shall contribute to the technical-level work. Finland’s representatives and substitutes i...https://tem.fi/en/eu-ai-board-and-its-sub-groups
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National Working Life Development Strategy – Towards the working life of 2035 The working life Development Strategy responds to the need to increase productivity and wellbeing at work. The quality of working life is an important factor in employme...https://tem.fi/en/working-life-development-strategy
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Identifying the skills of working-age people Identifying skills means that a person is able to recognise, verbalise and make visible the competence they have acquired in different ways, both for themselves and for the society around them. The abil...https://tem.fi/en/identifying-the-competence
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Preparation of product-group specific requirements The energy efficiency of products is regulated in the EU by the Ecodesign Directive and the Energy Labelling Regulation. They have been implemented in Finland through the Ecodesign Act (1005/2008)...https://tem.fi/en/preparation-of-product-group-specific-requirements
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Ensuring essential work during industrial action The legislation aims to ensure the continuity of society’s critical functions during industrial action if the parties cannot by negotiation reach an agreement on the provision of essential work duri...https://tem.fi/en/ensuring-essential-work
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21.5.2025 | On 20 May 2025, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment appointed three working groups to prepare the measures agreed by the Government in its mid-term policy review session in spring 2025. The working groups will prepare measures concerning the board-level employee representation, the Act on the Protection of Privacy in Working Life, and the time for taking carried-over holiday entitlement.https://tem.fi/en/-/tripartite-working-groups-to-prepare-the-government-s-labour-market-reforms-outlined-in-the-mid-term-policy-review-session
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1.7.2025 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment has appointed a working group of public officials to assess legislation concerning plants handling dangerous chemicals and explosives which are important for national defence. Due to the changed security environment in Finland, the processing of licence applications, disclosure obligations and data processing of these plants will be evaluated.https://tem.fi/en/-/working-group-to-examine-legislation-on-plants-handling-dangerous-chemicals-and-explosives-important-for-national-defence
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9.9.2024 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment has appointed two new tripartite working groups to draw up the Government's labour market reforms. One of the working groups will focus on those grounds for terminating employment that are related to the employee's person. The other will handle the grounds for fixed-term employment contracts, the period of notice for layoffs, and the reemployment obligation.https://tem.fi/en/-/tripartite-working-groups-to-draft-legislative-proposals-on-removing-barriers-to-employing-workers
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26.1.2026 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment appointed a working group to prepare a programme to prevent segregation. The working group will identify measures to reduce segregation. The programme is due to be completed by the end of 2026.https://tem.fi/en/-/work-begins-on-national-programme-to-prevent-segregation
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9.9.2025 | The three/six-month rule, which entered into force in June 2025, determines the amount of time during which foreign workers need to find a new job, if their previous employment relationship has ended prematurely. However, the rule has a more limited effect than assumed. For example, the rule does not apply to international students looking for work after graduating from a Finnish higher education institution.https://tem.fi/en/-/fixed-term-work-can-open-a-career-path-for-foreign-students-in-finland
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25.2.2025 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health have launched a national project on the Working Life Development Strategy with the aim of increasing labour productivity and improving wellbeing at work.https://tem.fi/en/-/work-on-the-working-life-development-strategy-begins-towards-a-good-and-productive-working-life-of-2035
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21.11.2023 | The Talent Boost programme on work-based and education-based immigration will continue in a revised form during this Government term. The aim is to provide Finland with skills that meet its needs and to strengthen economic growth, employment and innovation activities. The ministerial working group on employment and entrepreneurship approved the programme on 21 November 2023.https://tem.fi/en/-/ministerial-working-group-approves-revised-talent-boost-programme-on-work-based-and-education-based-immigration-for-2023-2027
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8.2.2024 | A tripartite working group, which will prepare amendments to the mediation system of labour disputes, met for the first time on 8 February 2024. The aim is to promote an export-driven labour market model.https://tem.fi/en/-/tripartite-working-group-preparing-the-labour-market-model-begins-its-work
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15.1.2024 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment has set up a broad-based working group to prepare the reform of the legislation on the security of supply. In accordance with the Government Programme, an overall review of the legislation will be carried out during this parliamentary term in order to update regulation. The working group term extends from 15 January 2024 to 31 December 2025.https://tem.fi/en/-/working-group-to-prepare-reform-of-security-of-supply-legislation
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20.12.2023 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment has appointed a steering group to prepare a minerals strategy in accordance with the Government Programme. Kimmo Tiilikainen, Director General of the Geological Survey of Finland, will chair the steering group. The strategy will be completed at the end of 2024..https://tem.fi/en/-/working-group-appointed-to-prepare-a-national-mineral-strategy
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1.4.2025 | On 1 April 2025, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment published a discussion paper of a tripartite working group examining the possible need to amend board-level representation of employees, as outlined in a report by rapporteur Jukka Ahtela. The Government will assess the need for amendments in its mid-term policy review session in spring 2025.https://tem.fi/en/-/working-group-s-paper-on-the-report-on-board-level-employee-representation-has-been-completed
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13.12.2023 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment has appointed a tripartite working group to prepare amendments to the Act on Co-operation within Undertakings (hereinafter, the Co-operation Act) and issues related to the board representation of employees. The changes are part of the Government’s package of labour market reforms.https://tem.fi/en/-/tripartite-working-group-to-prepare-changes-to-the-co-operation-act
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6.3.2025 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment have appointed a cross-sectoral working group to prepare the reform of the Act on the Screening of Foreign Corporate Acquisitions, as outlined in the Government Programme. The Programme states that the Act will be reformed to more effectively take into account risks relating to national security, security of supply and wide-ranging influence activities.https://tem.fi/en/-/working-group-to-prepare-the-reform-of-the-foreign-corporate-acquisitions-act
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16.6.2020 | A ministerial working group on skills, education and innovation and a ministerial working group on promoting employment approved the interdepartmental Talent Boost action programme at meetings held on 16 June 2020. The aim of the action programme is to make Finland an internationally attractive place to work, study, research and pursue private enterprise, with a view to applying the expertise of internatio...https://tem.fi/en/-/talent-boost-toimenpideohjelma-hyvaksyttiin-ministerityoryhmissa